Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Prinicipal Investigator Michael Satlow

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 Mger 0011

Mt. Gerizim. Probably 200-100 BCE, maybe 400-300 BCE. Fragment. Type of inscription unknown.

Broken on all sides

27 41.5 ca. 40

Letters are worn and difficult to decipher

Rough-pointed dressing Inscribed face

Probably 200-100 BCE, maybe 400-300 BCE Samaria Mount Gerizim Area S On the surface of the eastern slope

Storerooms of the Archaeology Staff Officer: K28053

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

Edited Adding Pleiades IDs to origin/placenames adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

וס אפלמקוס טורא טבא

...] ○ws Apellemos [......] Ṭura Ṭ[b]’ [...

Line 1: The letter mem was inscribed over the letter qof, apparently replacing it, so that this word should be read אפלמוס (Apellemos).Line 2: טורא(Ṭura) means "mountain"; here it may be a place name. At the end of this line some additional letters may be discerned, perhaps a tet and also an alef. Josephus mentions a Samaritan town by the name of Ṭura (or Ṭira). Ṭaba meaning the "Good Mountain" (Jos., Ant. 18:86) where the Samaritans would gather before ascending Mt. Gerizim in the time of Pontius Pilate. The name is also mentioned as one of the thirteen appellations for Mt. Gerizim in Tibat Marqah (94a, 224a).

וס אפלמקוס טורא טבא

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